Create sorting API and use it for plugin list (and beyond)

Plugin list is sorted by name but emojis throw it off.

Maybe you can use something like this in the sort algorithm:
let result = string.replacingOccurrences( of:"[^A-Za-z0-9]", with: "", options: .regularExpression)
Feels like we encounter this in the sidebar and lots of other places also. I know @codedungeon has run into this. Might be good for you to expose an API that sorts a list of object by a certain key. So you and all the plugins can be 100% consistent.
e.g.
sortObjectListByAlpha(objectList, keyToSortBy)

@EduardMe said:
"Ok, I tried to remove the emojis, but it doesn't work consistently. Still issues are getting in
That's much more work than I thought. Here the next feedback will be: "Why is '!' not sorting the plugin up?"